Dear Editor, It’s high time all the clerics in the House of Lords were turfed out.

It’s nonsensical, archaic, manipulating and an insult to the overwhelming majority of people in this country; It’s also high time that those in any political party whose religion is to the forefront had it made clear that any ambitions of reaching No.10 would be a non-starter.

I prefer the lies of politicians, which at least I expect, to being patronised by clerics who regard themselves as my or our moral guardians.

As for the Pope condemning contraception, when so much new life comes into the world to die of starvation or as the result of violence in huge parts of the Third World, or vast members of pregnancies occur through rape globally, the man is further from God and closer to the anti-Christ for my money.

This issue alone shows Papal infallibility to be rank nonsense, even before the kick-off.